Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Struggle, Theresa Riverahas made it possible”there will be no power outages this winter“In Spain it is neither local nor industrial, because the Government closely monitors the activities of the operators. can determine whether there is a moment of crisis.
“It’s impossible to have any cut in the 99%, only if you add many unexpected factors, accidents, weather problemswe can find some kind of limitation”, he explained this Tuesday in an interview on Race 1 collected by Europa Press.
Ribera sent a message of calm to citizens and justified that the situation in Spain “absolutely has nothing to do with” the situation in most of the countries of Central and Northern Europe. Spain isolated as an energy islandIn his own words, he developed a much more robust and diversified system.
“That doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect us at all, affects usbecause prices in international markets are changing and this affects everyone who consumes natural gas, because there is more demand for that product,” he added.
He assured that the main aim of the government was this. take all possible measures to reduce the impact of high prices as much as possible through regulatory measures” while promoting austerity measures or strengthening social protection measures.
Russian and Ukrainian war
Ribera assured the President of Russia. Vladimir Putin, turned energy into a weapon of war: “It’s important to see what happens to the gas price, At what price does Europe want to buy it, how can regulation separate the price of gas from the price of electricity, because the cost of producing electricity is not the same as producing electricity with gas”.
“The price of gas cannot be the price that determines the market. price of all electricity Since the price of gas is only as important as 20% of the electricity we consume, the rest is produced at other costs unrelated to the cost of gas in international markets and there is no point in compensating. the same way,” he added.
Renewable energy
Ribera says you should bet “absolutely” on renewable energyto reduce gas-based options as much as possible and to seek local alternatives such as renewable sources.
“It is true that we are in a difficult situation, but it is also true. we have never been in a difficult situation with so many resources‘ manifested.
Likewise, he assured Catalonia that it was “late” in the transition to renewable energies, and expressed hope, in his own words, that the Generalitat would pick up the pace.
He reminded that Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, is a highly industrialized Community. citizens expect to have energy comfortHe assured that small interventions would not be enough to meet the Catalans’ demand for renewable energy.